[Loch-Ruadh] Games at Gulf War

[Spence and Robin Mabry]

My Good Gentles,
You are apparently playing a version of Dreidel using dice instead of
the dreidel. There are excellent web sites on the game, even telling you
how to make your own from paper.
The    (N) means Nothing, if you get this you do nothing.
The    (G) means All, if you get this you take everything in the middle.

The    (H) means Half, take half of what's in the middle plus one if
it's an odd number of objects.

The     (W) means Put In. If you get this, put in two objects.
When only 1 or no objects left in the middle each player adds one.
This game can go on forever and there's no specifics as to what type
items go on the pot.
http://www.cstone.net/~bry-back/holidayfun/dreidel.html

Have fun ya'll!
YIS
RdS

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Greetings,

Well, as fate would have it, Daire and I are bringing the five year old
with us again this year.  Oh well.  So, we will be spending more time in
camp at night that what we had originally planned.

We are going to bring a "gambling game" that a friend of ours introduced
us to some years ago.  It has some history in Bjornsborg, is sort of
period and tons of fun.

In order to play, you need only bring things to gamble with.  It is a
game of chance, played with two dice which specifies a square which
tells you what to do...either take something, leave something, take it
all, or give every player something.

Gambling goods can be as meagher or as rich as your tastes and risk
factor dictates.  Shell necklaces are often unstrung and the small
shells come in handy when you land on the square that tells you to give
every player something.  Bits of metal (like hack silver in a viking
horde), any metal jewelry, pretty stones, beads, horn, even glass
marbles are great.  Be creative, dig out all of those single ear rings
that you no longer have use for.  For those of you who do not collect
site tokens, these make great gambling goods.  And, yes, if you lose
your goods, you lose your goods.  We really are gambling.  There is no
return of items lost, well at least at the table anyway.

Players come and go from the table at will, there is no defined stop or
start as in some board games and play is often interupted with attempts
at humor and tales of one's persona.  Mead and beer seem to make the
game fun as well.

I will be at populace this week and will bring out my bag of goods and
the game (it is on a piece of leather) for anyone interested in  looking
at it.

Medb Liath
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